Poet Shai Ben-Shalom writes: "Electricity in Ontario, costlier than ever. Some must choose between hydro and buying food, paying rent..." READ MORE
Review: Moonlight And Fresh Caribou
Ask oldtimers what pre-industrial life was like in Yukon and Northwest Territories and they recall the sound of sled dogs galloping through the snow, the blue gleam of moonlight in winter and smell of fresh caribou steaks drying on spruce boughs. Anthropologist Leslie McCartney asked twenty-three Gwich’in elders as old as 99. Their stories are chronicled in Our Whole Gwich’in Way Of Life Has Changed, a big, beautiful volume, 848 pages. It is warm and human. There is a blank space in all history books dotted here and there with guesswork and anecdotes. Missing are accounts of daily working lives prior to the 18th century. There are no written descriptions by workaday Norwegian sailors or Hessian miners or Mongolian herders since ordinary people had no means of writing it down. READ MORE
NDP Rejected Jewish Appeal
New Democrat Party headquarters yesterday would not comment over its refusal to answer a B’nai Brith campaign questionnaire on public disorder. It was the only Party that would not comment when asked, “If elected, what steps will your government take to ban hate rallies?” READ MORE
Church Fire Links Questioned
Crime data analysis suggest a spike in church fires coincided with First Nations claims of hidden graves at Indian Residential Schools, an Ottawa think tank said yesterday. “Few Canadians understood the full scope and scale of these attacks,” said a report by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute: 'This must have an explanation.' READ MORE
Calls 2026 EV Mandate Costly
Electric car mandates set to take effect in 2026 will be repealed if Conservatives are elected, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre said yesterday. Car buyers must not be compelled to drive vehicles they do not want or cannot afford, he said: "This is not a ‘tomorrow’ problem, this is a ‘now’ problem." READ MORE
Ridicules Trudeau Photo Ops
Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday depicted Justin Trudeau as an unserious figure who invited ridicule. Relations with the United States are not a photo op or “a visit to Mar-a-Lago,” said Carney. READ MORE
Island Is A Tariff-Free Zone
Cabinet has declared a New Brunswick island the nation’s only tariff-free zone. Campobello Island was a special case since residents have to buy their groceries in Maine, said the Department of Finance: "Residents have no practical choice." READ MORE
Guest Commentary
There was a movie, God’s Little Acre. It caused all sorts of commotion. We had a censorship board right here in Alberta, and they decided the movie was not fit to be seen. I remember as an MLA going down to the censorship office with a number of colleagues to see this movie for ourselves. You said to yourself afterwards, “What was so shocking?” There were suggestive scenes. I recall some older MLAs saying, “We have to stop this.” There was a debate. Do we have censorship or not? There was a sense we were protecting people from the evils of this movie. I didn’t buy that. People should make up their own minds.
